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Tim Kranen
Tim Kranen

Reputation: 4222

EditText auto suggestions are blank or non existing

I have a standard straight forward EditText, I want to show the dictionary suggestions on top of this EditText so I did this in the XML:

<EditText
 android:id="@+id/messaging_messageEdit"
 android:layout_width="0dp"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_gravity="center"
 android:layout_margin="10dp"
 android:layout_weight="85"
 android:background="@drawable/clanz_edit_text_holo_dark"
 android:ems="10"
 android:hint="Type your message here..."
 android:singleLine="true"
 android:inputType="textAutoComplete"
 android:textColor="#dedede" >
</EditText>

I thought that the inputType parameter would take care of the auto dictionary view. On my phone (Nexus Android 5.1) the dictionary view appears but is blank. On a Genymotion emulator (Android 4.1.1) it does not display at all.

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 836

Answers (3)

Araz
Araz

Reputation: 190

I had the same problem not getting keyboard suggestions on some of my EditText views. Please pay attention there is a difference between autoComplete text views and getting keyboard suggestions while typing! They happen in two different places, first one inside the AutoCompleteTextView the other one on top of your keyboard while typing.. (for example you type te => it suggests "tea teaspoon teapot" to make your life easier.) To achieve that I had to turn off the input types that I was setting programmatically and when you do so, the default behavior is back and that means getting keyboard word suggestions:

//  etFieldValue.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_COMPLETE);

I tried the following but I still did not get a keyboard suggestions:

etFieldValue.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE|InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_COMPLETE);

at the end I commented all the above and it worked just fine!

here I also found that someone else had the reverse problem meaning they wanted to disable this functionality and they suggested to use the code that I had commented! read here

Upvotes: 0

Kevin van Mierlo
Kevin van Mierlo

Reputation: 9794

If I understand correctly you want the keyboard to have auto correction right?

According to the Android developers website:

Can be combined with text and its variations to specify that this field will be doing its own auto-completion and talking with the input method appropriately. Corresponds to TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_COMPLETE.

This is not what you're looking for. You are probably looking for textAutoCorrect which is this according to the Android developers website:

Can be combined with text and its variations to request auto-correction of text being input. Corresponds to TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_CORRECT.

I've made a lot of apps and never used one of those though. It just auto corrects if you have a normal EditText.

Upvotes: 1

strike
strike

Reputation: 1039

This can be one solutions if you are looking for AutoComplete TextView.

<AutoCompleteTextView
                    android:id="@+id/from_station"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:hint="@string/enter_start"
                    android:imeOptions="actionNext"
                    android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
                    android:textColorHint="@color/transparent_black" />

You can also set threshold value using paramters. Need to set adapter values at runtime.

Upvotes: 5

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